Hi I'm Grant the Polite Guy and I was homeless for about a year and a half. So much has happened since then. I write here to help bring homeless awareness looking at the world through a homeless person's point of view.

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Sunday, October 28, 2012

As people know I was asking for clothes and things for 3 homeless
people who had lost everything over the weekend. The results were fantastic, Help
came from everywhere and most of all that were lost were replaced. I have to
say there’s nothing worst then being down on your luck and then trying to put
together a few things just to live only to lose it all. I keep saying I wish
people could come with me to hand things like this out because their smiles and
the thank you’s makes my so proud of what I do. Helping people in need.

I would like to say a few words about 4 amazing people that
went far and beyond anything I asked for.

Rachel Turner caught a train to the city and handed me lots
of beautiful clothes and told me all about how she had just rescued a dog from
the pound. Very proud as she showed me pictures as well. An amazing person.

Yvonne Jones through her contacts with the Rotary Club organised
Shelter Paks which as you can see with the pictures have a huge amount of
goodies and much needed things when being homeless. So I say every time you see
a Rotary collections or fundraiser, please remember these Paks and know they do
help. But what makes Yvonne so great? Well she picked them up and then drove to
the city from Redcliff just to hand these Paks out so people in need could have
them. Awesome in my book.

Making a Difference, I have written about before and once
again they came and helped when people in need needed them. They asked all
their members and collect clothes for three homeless that lost everything. I
say “Thank you”

Oddur Thomas Augustsson or “Tom” for short is a very good
mate of mine. He’s helped many of times with different things to do with the
homeless, also he’s one of my best customers who buys my magazines and Amway
products. But this day to help 3 people he’ll never meet he went out and bought
clothes and from home got a towel and things as well. The guy is awesome and I’m
proud to call him a mate.

Now I’ve been so excited to share this news, but I couldn’t
because I wanted to make sure it was all going together properly first. Christmas BBQ for the Homeless.

I am all about showing the homeless that the community is
coming together to help with these events. I thought about Christmas and was
thinking what a better time to do it. Really Christmas time is about families
and friends coming together.

How to make it so homeless get the Christmas feeling? We
will give the homeless balls. Haha Stop laughing it’s Christmas Balls I’m
talking about. I’m thinking we get a art pen and write their name on them and
give a ball and a Christmas card. Now I just had a heart felt moment of
thinking, if even just one person keeps that ball and looks at it or even hangs
it up on Christmas Night then it’ll be worth it to hand them out.

So what do we need to put this BBQ event together for maybe
1,000 homeless and people in need?

Clothes and lots of them,

Blankets and sleeping bags

Toiletries

Drinks (Bottled water/ soft drinks)

Christmas balls

Christmas cards

A mountain of helpers to hand out flyiers before the event
to homeless

A mountain of helpers on the day

Flyiers made up

Beer for Grant for doing great job. Haha

I would put food and insurance but it’s taken care of by
Jerome Dalton from Dalton’s Hospitality. (There awesome)

I will be collecting clothes and things for this event on the 30th of Nov at Queen st outside Post Office Square before 2pm. Or please bring to the event on the day. (Much easier)

Now remember our golden rule, it’s all they can eat and all
clothes and everything there is free if they can carry it. We have had such
success with these BBQ’S and helped so many people with just clothes and things,
for some helping to get on their feet. I must say it makes me proud that people
like you make this happen. Let’s band together and show the community coming
together.

Monday, October 22, 2012

I have an
SOS emergency, this is why people follow so please help. Today 3 homeless came
to me at different times and told me how they lost all their clothes and bags
over the weekend. This struck me as odd because well yes even I lost bags of
clothes and in fact everything I own when I was homeless but it was strange
that 3 would on the same weekend.

They weren’t
together so I thought some asshole went around collecting for himself/herself
or just to throw out as a mean thing to do.

So he’s my
SOS, I know there’s nothing like losing everything you have over and over
again. So I’m collecting clothes and much needed things for them. I have given
a few things I had stored in the city for tonight.

Male
Clothes:

Shorts,
Shirts and a Jacket, X-Large

Toiletries.

2* 1Female
Clothes:

Undies size
12.

Shirts,
pants and skirts size 12-14

Bra’s 14c

Toiletries
for girls

Luggage Bags

I will say when your homeless and you have
only a few things in life, you try hard to protect them well. But when you lose
them again and your left with nothing but the clothes on your back then let’s
just say it’s not a good feeling. So if you have these sizes or things and you
don’t want, then please bring them to me over the next two days at Post Office
Square on Queens St, I’m the polite guy selling Big Issue magazines from
6:30-2pm.

I want to
make this short and get the message out as soon as possible so I’ll end it
here.

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Okay I’m so excited with everything happening over the last 24 hours. But first this is going to be the first joint written post by Bernie the Polite Girl and myself. I would really like to know in the comments if you like it or if better we do our own posts?

You know when you raise your fist in the air because you’re so excited? Well because of my back I raised it to shoulder height. But I raised it about 100 times in the last 24 hours. I even done a lot of “YEAH” at the same time. Okay let me just say I got such great news I’m doing it again now. haha

The guy is amazing, Loves what we do and is offering to cook and bring chef’s to come too. But wait it gets better, He’s offering to bring all food, orange juice machines to make fresh orange juice on the day, tables and a whole lot more. But the one thing that has me excited the most is the fact that Dalton’s Hospitality can use their insurance to cover our BBQ’S. Which will save us so much money which we will not need to beg for each time we do a BBQ. AWESOME. Haha

To be honest I feel like it’s Christmas already. Haha

So I’m saying to all, Please, if this guy is going to help us with helping the homeless and people in need, then let’s pump his hospitality business with everything we have. So please go to his web-page and share and promote it with me.

The rest of this post is going to be by Bernie the Polite Girl. Even I want to read this. Haha I hope she don’t make me look bad with using bigger words. haha

Written by Grant the Polite Guy. I hope you all have a great day and thank you very much for reading my blog.

Bigger words aye… Haha. I don’t think so J Grant has already said it above. Oh, if you could feel the buzz right now! The Polite Team has some wonderful events in the pipeline – watch this space – and it is just so exciting to see things come together more and more. Meeting great people over coffee during their lunch break to brain storm, get ideas and working them out is a privilege. Having the honour of those people selflessly offering their assistance at no cost to help make our events special and memorable for the homeless, is heart-warming. I am seeing the world through rosy-coloured glasses right now because I know there is so much goodness around. Believe me, there is more good happening in the world than the media are letting on.

It is a privilege to be part of the polite Team (thank you, Grant), as I get to see so much of the goodness and to meet so many more people with their hearts in the right place. Take earlier this week. We met with people who work in the CBD and who spent their lunch break discussing ideas with us and developing “where-to-from-here” plans in order to help our next two events materialize and to make them special and memorable for the people they are aimed at. And only yesterday Grant met with Jerome Dalton, Director/Chef at Dalton Hospitality, one of Brisbane’s premier catering companies. Grant wrote about the incredible result of his meeting with Jerome above, so no need for me to repeat it, but boy, what great news it is. I encounter so much goodwill from people it’s like being in love J

I am only a starter in this area of homelessness and, as I said in my Intro, homelessness has not always been on my radar, but I do believe that not in every corner is it the taboo it is in some others: there is a lot of support out there. As Grant often says, people often say to him they want to help but they don’t know how. If you are one of these people, I’d like to say, watch this space J

Saturday, October 13, 2012

I have some exciting news. Bernie the Polite Girl and I have started a new blog in a team effort "The Polite Team". Yes that's right now there's a Bernie the Polite Girl.
So now there's going to be more posts, more often. Trust me Bernie is awesome and I'm proud to share a blog with her.
Please go to http://homelesstales.blogspot.com.au/ and check it out.
The next BBQ is being planned. Check out http://homelesstales.blogspot.com.au/ to get more info.
Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you all have a great day.

About Me

Hi I Grant the polite guy. I'm a big issue vendor that sells mags in the city. I spend most of my time saying "Have a nice day" to people that walk pass. I would see thousands of people a day and see alot of things that I am happy to share with you. If you stand in one spot long enough you'll see the world come to you.
I hope you enjoy the stories and have a nice day.